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by pudo 17y ago
I found Bruce Sterlings - very sarcastic - comments regarding this enterprise very interesting (and funny): http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/06/male-libertar... I share his views insofar as this is internet ideology run amok wi
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by pudo 17y ago
> ANI is an attempt to fuse the intuitive feel of shell scripting Am I the only one who still has to google most of 'sh's predicates and syntax?
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by pudo 17y ago
I like "Poopy". A while back I wrote a mass mailing app for a fund management company. They were sending out frequent updates to the ~12000 investors of their funds which had to be very HTMLy and professional. Well, it turns out that leavin
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by pudo 17y ago
For all those watching the recordings, let me recommend today's Wikileaks talk. Their current proposal of establishing Iceland as a safe haven for data (and thus giving the nation a new business model) really deserves some consideration and
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by pudo 17y ago
What is the goal of my interaction with this? You're presenting me with a very short blob of technical gibberish on each item and then you're essentially asking me to guess at the answer. The best-case result of this is a scientifically (i.
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by pudo 17y ago
Wow that is just an amazing application. It really enables government transparency. I'm seriously thinking about porting it to the German political system.
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by pudo 17y ago
I want a little flag next to the output that tells me whether the program terminates. Can't be that hard. SCNR.
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by pudo 17y ago
I've been wondering about distributed solutions to torrent indexing for a while - maybe some of you know some good discussions on this topic? What I noticed is that .torrent files are essentially weird, JSON-like dictionaries. It would be t
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by pudo 17y ago
Is that a MacBook in front of the man with the many faces(tm)?
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by pudo 17y ago
There certainly are a lot of areas in which the model you propose has been and will continue to be extremely successful: providing a specific group of people - preferably domain experts of some sort - with the knowledge they need remains a
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by pudo 17y ago
I don't really follow the "quality will save us" argument. It combines two very weak ideas into an even weaker one: the elitist news thing and the Britcannica argument. The elitist reasoning goes like this: MSM are only reporting MJ death s
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by pudo 17y ago
You're right: journalists will determine the future of journalism. I think the more relevant question is whether journalism is where we will get the news in a few years. At the moment, it seems to me like we're finding new, social (in the W
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by pudo 17y ago
There is a lot that could be done regarding library management: It should be a lot faster, support bulk operations a lot better and implement fragmented libraries. What I mean by that is that I use a MacBook with a 240GB hard disk for media
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by pudo 17y ago
Clickable: http://adhocracy.cc
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Review my side project - direct democracy platform
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by pudo 17y ago
I'm sorry but I seem to be missing the deeper point here; the post pretty much looks like a two-page description of a PHP plugin coder forgetting to put [&\?] in a regexp. Please explain!
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by pudo 17y ago
The implication that F/OSS donations should go to charity might not sit too well with a lot of people. They're developing software in their own time and giving it away for free - why do they now have to channel money to charity to improve t
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by pudo 17y ago
True. Also, having quantified the value of each contribution might actually create a disincentive for joining the project: that 5-line patch that was going to be my very first contribution is now officially worth nothing, so why submit it?
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by pudo 17y ago
While you are probably right in identifying these two groups as very intense users of such a system, I would argue that they would not be its typical users but rather the people most likely to abuse it. This has to do with the concept of "p
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by pudo 18y ago
Please do not put links to Hulu in HN. None of their Videos can be played outside the US which makes it near impossible for a large part of the HN readership to follow the ensuing discussion.
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by pudo 18y ago
Pretty soon we'll need an assigned names and numbers authority for buzzwords. Sign me up for the good old stuff, like Cyber and Meta. About the text, though, I am not sure if this is simply the art student/hippie reformulation of the Web 2.
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by pudo 18y ago
Most of the publishing industry, esp. books. This is somewhat contingent on the success of ePaper/eBook technologies like (but not) the Kindle. They still need to develop for a while (2yrs or so) so the displays will be fast, have good cont
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by pudo 18y ago
Yeah, I guess the main point here was to have the CEO give a TechTalk - which fails. Of course showing half of your companys employees during your presentation might be very motivating but if you mess up the tech part it just ends up being
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by pudo 18y ago
This is smart but I'm not sure what the fundamental transaction on such a market is. Keep in mind that there is no rivalry for karma (in an economic sense) and that people always keep their karma after giving to others (or possibly even inc
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by pudo 18y ago
I have been coding a prototype of this in my free time over the past couple of weeks. It's fun, but I'm not sure it actually makes lots of sense. Not only is it really hard come up with a model to convert currency from many places into a "s